The shadows in the alleyway seemed to deepen, to twist and writhe. From around the corner, she heard a muffled bark, followed by the familiar clink of a tag. A wave of ice flooded through her.

She wanted to run, to scream, but her feet felt heavy, anchored to the grimy pavement. She held her breath, every muscle tense.

A low growl rumbled, close by. She squeezed her eyes shut, fighting the urge to cry. “Please, go away,” she whispered, the words lost in the wind.

Emotion: terrified

Cluster: Fear / Anxiety
PC1 (Valence): -2.97 Negative
PC2 (Disposition): -0.62

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion terrified. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 terrified stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the terrified emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the terrified vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
😣0.357
worse0.350
无法0.334
😰0.333
sickening0.322
Suppressed:
la-0.676
a-0.392
de-0.371
"-0.344
happy-0.309